ISBN Four Novels book English 408 pages

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece,Suite Française.ButSuite Françaisewas only a coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, yet hugely talented novelist, who fled Russia for Paris after the Revolution and died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky's other novels - all of them newly translated by the award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, exceptDavid Golder, available in English for the first time.David Golderis the book that established Némirovsky's reputation in France in 1929 when she was twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and loneliness, the story of an ageing Russian Jewish businessman,an exile in France, learning to confront death and the knowledge that wealth has not brought him happiness.The Ballis both a sensitive exploration of adolescenceand a mercilessexposure of bourgeois social pretension.Snow in Autumnis an evocative tale of White Russian emigrés in Paris, while inThe Courilof Affaira retired Russian revolutionary recalls an infamous assassinationcommitted in his youth. Introduced by novelist Claire Messud.